sahara

January 22 movie: Sahara. Humphrey Bogart leads a ragtag group of soldiers who try to hold a deserted outpost against the Nazis in Africa. It was a good movie, very tense, though there's a level of sadism --Bogart taunting Germans who are dying of thirst with a well they don't know is dry -- that I found a bit hard to take. But there's a twist at the end that makes things okay. [major spoiler: the Germans shell the outpost, hit the well and cause the water to start flowing. So when the German soldiers surrender to get the water, there really is water for them.]